I alternate stores I buy bettas from. I just noticed that. It's always from Petco(apart from Chance), but in different towns. The people at Petsmart are nice though! One older cashier, when I bought my peppered cories, asked me about my fish. She said that at one time she had over 100 cories in several tanks. 8O That's a lot of algae wafers!

I get the same thing at petsmart near my office they all know me by now most even know my name LOL they know I will find them if I need them. I am lucky with my petsmart the people they have there are smart and all almost all of them are very good about knowing how to take care of fish.